Toyota, a company, actually started out as a textile company. At the end of the 19th century, there was a second-generation rich man in Japan named Kiichiro Toyoda. His father, Sakichi Toyoda, invented the world’s first automatic textile machine. Became a textile giant at that time. At that time, a large British company wanted to buy Sakichi Toyoda's textile machine patent and offered a sky-high price of 100,000 pounds.
So Toyoda Sakichi sent his son Kiichiro Toyoda to the UK to get this huge sum of money. When Kiichiro Toyoda came to the UK, he was shocked by the cars coming and going on the street, so he came up with the idea of The desire to build cars in Japan.
——The picture and text are excerpted from "Three Minutes Cartoon History of Cars" written by Sai Lei